Tomato Divas Wowed at The Triad

Randie Levine-Miller’s Tomatoes Showstopper Divas was a fabulous event this week at The Triad.

This year’s “Tomatoes Got Talent” winner, Sheree Sano, co-headlined the musical funfest with past winners and runner-ups from the previous five years of “Tomatoes Got Talent,” New York’s only singers contest celebrating the talents of women-over-40 who are not working pros and have day jobs. Levine-Miller co-produced the annual TGT event with Cheryl Benton, the founder and publisher of www.Thethreetomatoes.com. The concert also featured a guest appearance by cabaret favorite Sidney Myer. Jimmy Horan is the music director. A portion of the evening’s proceeds benefit The National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Among the bushel of talent of a certain age who took root on stage the past winners before Sano: The 2017 winner Teresa Fischer, an executive assistant for an executive search firm by day; and th 2014 winner Karen Nason, a businesswoman in Hoboken, New Jersey, who recently ran for mayor of Hoboken.

Also on the bill were this year’s runner-up Maggie Determann, who is the membership director for a non-profit. 2014 is also represented by these runner-ups: Robin GersonWong, who sang on Broadway in the ’70s, and “retired” to motherhood (twins) and now is proprietor of the Seven Hills Inn in The Berkshires; Alice Levine, MD, who is one of New York’s top endocrinologists, and a professor at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, and Merrill Stone, a gerontologist, who has also been a businesswoman and theater producer.Sheree Sano, the 2018 winner, is a computer technician and graphic artist who tickles the ivories at Don’t Tell Mama.